Music holder



H. STENGEL.

MUSIC HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30. [920- 1 ,430, 3 3 5 Patented bgpi. 26, 1922.

@Ql A /7 I R /L i F Fatented Sept. 26, 1922.

' UNITE STATES PATENT OFFIE.

HERMAN STENGEL, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO ANTHONY J. OTTEN.

MUSIC HOLDER.

Application filed September 30, 1920. Serial No. 413,786.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HERMAN STENGEL, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Los Angeles, California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Music Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to music holders and consists of the novel features herein shown, described and claimed.

An object is to make a suitable cover or binder for a plurality of pieces of sheet music, so that a piece may be readily applied, securely held, and readily removed, and without puncturing or otherwise mutilating the piece.

My music holder preferably embodies two cover boards, a stiff back hingedly connected to each cover board; abutments extending forwardly from the upper and lower ends of the stiff back; cords connecting the aloutments back of their forward edges; and stops at the left sides of the abutments.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan of a music holder embodying the principles of my invention, the music holder being open and parts being broken away and shown in section.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary detail plan on the same plane as Fig. 1, the pieces of sheet music being omitted and parts" being in section.

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on the line 33 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged end elevation looking in the direction of the arrow 4 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an isometric View of one of the upper abutments and stops shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

Referring to the drawings in detail:

The cover boards 1 and 2 are hingcdly connected to the stiff back 3. The metal attaching plates 4 and 5 are connected to the upper and lower ends and against the inner face of the stiff back 3 by eyelets (3 and 7. The attaching plate 5 is fiat and rectangular in plan. The lower abutment 8 extends forwardly from the lower edge of the attaching plate 5 and has preferably eight perforations 9. The lower stop 10 extends forwardly fromthe left edge of the attaching plate 5 and upwardly from the left side of the abutment 8;

In alike manner, the upper abutment 11 extends forwardlyfrom the upper edge of the attaching plate 4, the upper stop 12 extends forwardly from the left edge of the attaching plate 4 and downwardly from the left side of the abutment 11, and the abutment 1.1 has perforations 13. The cords l4 connect the abutments 8 and 11. In forming the cords 14 I preferably take a double thread, form the knot 15, pass the double thread back and forth through the perforations 9 and 13, draw the thread tight and form the knot 16, thus making sixteen cords with eight perforations in each abutment.

The pieces 17 of sheet music are applied by passing one or more of the leaves under a cord until the cord is in the fold 18. In this way sixteen pieces may be applied one to each of the sixteen cords. VJ hen the music holder stands on its lower end the pieces of sheet music will rest upon the lower abutment 8 and the strain of the cords against the edges of the paper is reduced to a minimum, thereby reducing the liability of tearing the paper.

lVhen the music holder is opened by turning back the first cover, as in Fig. 1, the corners of the first piece of sheet music 17 at the ends of the fold 18 will engage the stops l0 and 12 and the stops will hold the piece from sliding to the left when the first sheet of the piece is grasped and opened, or as the leaves are turned.

I claim:

A music holder comprising two cover boards, a stiff back hingedly connecting the cover boards, metal attaching plates secured to the inner face of the stiff back near its ends, perforated abutments extending from the attaching plates, stops at the left sides of the abutments, said stops extending inwardly beyond the face of the stiff back, and cords inserted through the perforations and connecting the abutments.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

HERMAN STENGEL. I 

